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• in Lifestyle
  FDA Limits Antibiotic Use in Livestock
  The FDA released a report limiting the use of a commonly used class of antibiotics in livestock.
  by jenna3967 / on Jan 5, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “superbugs”

 

• In the fight against superbugs, biosensors may have an answer

  
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  New biosensors have the potential to detect antiobiotic resistance in bacteria, according to new  re search.   read more
  1 week ago

• How Stressed Should We Be About Super Gonorrhea?

  
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  Super gonorrhea is back in the news, and outlets are divided on how panicked and/or chastened we should be. First, there were reports that a strain of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea found in Japan and Europe — the one which attained superpowers by mutating in the infection-hospitable back of the throat — ...
  2 weeks ago

• Worse Than AIDS Gonorrhea Strain Is Not, in Fact, Worse Than AIDS

  
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  Every now and again, the media likes to run with a time-honored story: GONORRHEA OMG YOURE ALL GOING TO DIE. The latest round of gonorrhea fear-mongering started with a strain of the STI called HO41. First discovered in a female sex worker in Japan, HO41 was thought to be in North America. Everyone freaked out. But ...
  2 weeks ago

• We Knew It Was Coming: The Sex Superbug

  
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  Aids has killed about 30 million since it came on the scene in the 1980s, and the new sex superbug, a strain of gonorrhea resistant to antibiotics, may prove to be more virulent and spread through the population faster."This might be a lot worse than AIDS in the short run because the bacteria is more aggressive and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Health Talk Recommends: Robots fighting superbugs

  
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  According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), despite the best efforts of hospitals and health care workers, 1 in 20 hospitalized patients will contract a health care acquired infection. The infections can cost the United States health care system billions of dollars each year and worse, can ...
  3 weeks ago

• Weekend Reading List: Food Safety Edition

  
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  -How did the City of Chicago celebrate Earth Day? By making a pact to brandish citywide recycling bins with Coca-Cola adverts. Seriously, read all about it here. Big bucks=big time ad space. Speak out for ad free public space and just say no.  -Bad news again for meat eaters: The researchers at ...
  3 weeks ago

• What FDA Tests Found in Your Meat

  
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  Antibiotics are used in livestock to prevent disease, but large corporate farms feed antibiotics to pigs, chickens, and cows to stimulate growth and save on feed costs, so that healthy cattle and poultry are routinely injected with antibiotics whether they need them or not. MRSA ST398 is one of a number of superbugs ...
  4 weeks ago

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